Have you ever wondered what events, conditions, and leadership decisions caused America's failure in the Vietnam War? The way the war was fought favored the North Vietnamese and was a major factor in giving the Viet Cong an advantage over the Americans. The tactics used by the North Vietnamese, the number of soldiers sent by the United States, the conditions they were placed in, and the change of U.S. presidents over the course of the war all play a vital role in making Vietnam unattainable. The North Vietnamese Army, NVA, used many warfare tactics that aided them in the war, but the most notable was the use of guerrilla warfare. “By 1961, guerrilla warfare was widespread in South Vietnam” (Anderson). This made the objective of the aerial bombardments to weaken North Vietnam's infrastructure. Bombs were dropped on military bases, supply depots and infiltration routes (Anderson). Each year after ROLLING THUNDER began, the number of bombs dropped each year until 1967, when the number of bombs dropped approached a quarter of a million (Anderson). By then, the bombings were severe enough to force the NVA to rethink their strategy for fighting the war (Bringham). This was seen by a sneak attack that captured all of America offshore. America first sent troops to Vietnam when President Kennedy was still in office to train South Vietnamese soldiers in war tactics to help them fight against North Vietnamese soldiers. “Kennedy's decision to send over 2,000 military advisors to South Vietnam in 1961 marked the beginning of twelve years of American military combat” (Anderson). That number would slowly increase over the next year and a half would slowly increase. By the end of 1962 Kennedy had ordered more supplies and equipment to help the South Vietnamese along with a total of 9,000 military advisors (Anderson). To better advise the soldiers in Vietnam, President Johnson appointed General William C. Westmoreland as commander, who immediately asked for more troops and by the end of 1964 there were more than 23,000 US troops in the country (Anderson). The number of soldiers sent to Vietnam increased every year and by the end of 1966 there were over 385,000 soldiers (Anderson). By the end of the war the total number of troops serving in the Vietnam War exceeded eight million, of which over three million were shipped to Southeast Asia (“America's War”). Conditions in Vietnam were far from perfect. The weather there was unlike anything they had ever seen before. Soldiers would be forced to deal with extreme heat and humidity, as well as having